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Friday, March 20, 2009

Covering the Armistice

CBS correspondent William Shirer (center) types his account of the armistice. In the background is the hall which had housed the railway carriage in which the 1918 ceremony was concluded. The carriage was taken to Germany where it was destroyed later in the war in an air raid.
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Labels: 1940, European War, France, German Army, United States

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